Good tire recommendations

[Joseph McAllister]

I knew there was a thread on this sometime back, but can not find it on the seach, but I am looking for tire recommendations.

I am looking for something that can handle both winter and summer, and will not clog up with mud or snow. A tire that has full slots ( the side tread does not stop at 3/32, it goes all the way to the tire itself, so water can leave the tread of the tire rather then pooling up in the tire and causing hydroplaning.)

I currently have uniroyals and the tires suck, I can spin my tires when there is a light dew on the roadway.

 

[Mark Blue]

Here are a couple of past threads that are not that old, so the information could be considered current:

Thread 1

Thread 2

I'm currently running on 20" Yokohama Avid ENVigor's and am a very satisfied customer. If you really want to read the nitty gritty about what other customers think check out the Tire Rack as there is a wealth of information to be found.

 

[Keith Wilson]

BFG Dueler AT Revo II would get my vote. I bought a Silverado 4x4 that had a new set of Uniroyal Laredo's on it and I quickly decided after the first rainstorm that they had to go. I felt like a rock skipping across a pond.
We received over 6" of rain over the weekend and my new Duelers had excellent performance both on the highways and on the sloppy red clay roads around here. Not much road noise and a personal friend said that he has gotten around 50,000 miles out of each of his last 2 sets of Duelers.

 

[Mark Blue]

What kind of vehicle do you drive Joseph so we know whether we are dealing with a car, SUV, pickup, etc.? Are you looking for an all season type tire or something designed for off road applications? If you could let us know I think there will be plenty of recommendations that can be made.

 

[Wes Carter]

BFG Dueler AT Revo II would get my vote. I bought a Silverado 4x4 that had a new set of Uniroyal Laredo's on it and I quickly decided after the first rainstorm that they had to go. I felt like a rock skipping across a pond.
We received over 6" of rain over the weekend and my new Duelers had excellent performance both on the highways and on the sloppy red clay roads around here. Not much road noise and a personal friend said that he has gotten around 50,000 miles out of each of his last 2 sets of Duelers.

Your experience mirrors mine exactly. Uniroyals suck big time. And the best tire I ever had on a truck was Bridgestone Dueler/AT REVO's. If the REVO's are too pricey for you, then the Deuler/AT's are still a great tire (the REVO is kind of the deluxe version of the Deuler/AT). I got almost 70,000 miles out of s set of them and they were still in decent shape, just the tread was getting a bit shallow.

 

[Jason Foster]

Michelin HydroEdge or Goodyear Triple Treds are hands down the best. I've done more research than probably anyone, including asking about anyone with a set on their car, and asking people with other tires recommended. The Yokohama's are good....but many (including my own conservative driving mother) had that they wore out extremely fast. Tred life on almost the entire line is overrated.

The HydroEdge come in two formats...one for passenger vehicles, and one for crossovers, lighter duty SUVs. If you really need SUV tires, read the other threads...as I didn't do the research for that type of vehicle.

If you are in MN though...you should strickly be looking at Snow Tires for winter if you plan on going out. I'm considering selling mine (blizzarks) I used on my Subie last season (damn good tires).

 

[D. Hayes]

BFG Dueler AT Revo II also here. I love those tires and they perform fantastic on rain/snow/ice

 

[ericjkelly]

I second the Hydroedge or Triple Treads. I really like the Latitude Tours also.

www.tirerack.com is a great site to learn etc!

 

[Joseph McAllister]

Here are a couple of past threads that are not that old, so the information could be considered current:

Thread 1

Thread 2

I'm currently running on 20" Yokohama Avid ENVigor's and am a very satisfied customer. If you really want to read the nitty gritty about what other customers think check out the Tire Rack as there is a wealth of information to be found.

I knew it was sometime last year ( still old) because I read them when I first joined, but thanks for researching the threads for me Mr. Blue, I could not find those because I only searched using tires

 

[Joseph McAllister]

BFG Dueler AT Revo II would get my vote. I bought a Silverado 4x4 that had a new set of Uniroyal Laredo's on it and I quickly decided after the first rainstorm that they had to go. I felt like a rock skipping across a pond.
We received over 6" of rain over the weekend and my new Duelers had excellent performance both on the highways and on the sloppy red clay roads around here. Not much road noise and a personal friend said that he has gotten around 50,000 miles out of each of his last 2 sets of Duelers.

Don't Uniroyals suck?! Slicks would get better traction then uniroyal

 

[Joseph McAllister]

What kind of vehicle do you drive Joseph so we know whether we are dealing with a car, SUV, pickup, etc.? Are you looking for an all season type tire or something designed for off road applications? If you could let us know I think there will be plenty of recommendations that can be made.

Yeah, Its a Grand Caravan (dodge) my choices are extremely limited (205/70R15)

 

[Matt Tottle]

BFG Dueler AT Revo II also here. I love those tires and they perform fantastic on rain/snow/ice

Another vote for Dueller AT/REVOs (they're Bridgestone, not BFG tho! ). On my second set and can't say I anything bad about them. Their road manners on snow and wet is fantastic.

 

[Jason Foster]

Yeah, Its a Grand Caravan (dodge) my choices are extremely limited (205/70R15)

Do yourself a HUGE favor and switch to 16" rims, even if they are cheap steelies. You'll thank me later (I'm a former Caravan owner).

 

[Mark Blue]

I'm assuming since you have a mini van you want a good all season model that will work in most conditions. I did a search on Tire Rack for your size and came up with 23 results in the all season category. Hopefully this link will work Tires Your Size. If it doesn't (sometimes their links are hokey) you can just go to the search page and put your size in the picklist here Search. You have many more choices than I do for my 2009 Murano, so happy shopping!

 

[J Tyler]

I'm another guy telling you to go to www.tirerack.com. Here is why.

Every tire made is a compromise. If it is a "high milage" tire that you can drive on for 80,000 miles, then it is hard rubber and will not "grip" the road as well. If it is a super sticky, awesome traction racing type tire, then it will wear out in 5,000 miles. To make a tire good in the rain, you have to have a lot of sipe and channels. BUT, when you do that, you give up ultimate dry weather grip.

ONLY YOU can decide what is important to YOU. The Tire Rack has charts that show each tires strong and weak areas, compared to other tires IN ITS CLASS. They sell most brands, so you feel you are getting honest info. I've bought from them for over 18 years.

For *MY* chase vehicle (4x4 Xterra), I wanted a tire that was good at speed in the rain, but HAD to offer high levels of performance in dry too. It also needed to have as much off road ability as I could get WITHOUT giving up too much ON road ability. I really like the Goodyear Wrangler DuraTrac, and it is a better OFF ROAD tire. However, what I gain in off road ability is not worth that tires very soft sidewall. High speed dry weather handling is "spooky" as the tire can squirm under side loading at speed. For me, the perfect tire has turned out to be the Firestone Destination AT. Playing in snow in the rocky mountains, high speed in blinding rain, higher speed in the dry, throwing mud rooster tails, they have done all I've asked. We are at 52,000 miles right now on this set and should see 60,000 before needing to replace.